Metropolitan Museum of Art

Write a three paragraph response reflecting on your Met experience. Follow the directions below: 1. What was your overall experience like today? What was your best experience? Explain. 2. If you had more time, what else would you have visited or spent more time on? 3. What was your most favorite or least favorite work of art that you visited on your individualized tour today? Write about why this artifact was your most/least favorite piece to visit in person. Use the detailed response in your packet to strengthen your writing.

Glogs

http://arditoscience.edu.glogster.com/glog-1178/

Paired Text Essay: Monsters of the Sea

Read this paired text on sea monsters.


http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/magazines/scope/pdfs/SCOPE-031212-PairedText.pdf



Answer the 8 multiple choice questions.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/magazines/scope/pdfs/SCOPE-REPRO-031212-8.pdf



Fill out the graphic organizer comparing and contrasting the monsters.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/magazines/scope/pdfs/SCOPE-REPRO-031212-9.pdf



Just like last week, here is the essay.

The writer J.R.R. Tolkien said, "I believe that legends and myth are largely made of truth." Write an essay explaining whether you agree or disagree with this quote. Use details from both passages to support your ideas.


Hints:

Include an intro, body paragraph(s) and a conclusion

Tell if you agree or disagree with the quote and support your ideas

Include at least 2 details from EACH passage

Check and double-check for spelling, grammar and punctuation

EXTRA HELP:

Organization: If you agree with the quote, try to focus on the similarities between the myths and truth. For example, their length, weight, and their large eyes If you disagree, try to focus on the differences between the myths and truths- like the aggressiveness of the creatures in the myth and the reclusive nature in reality.


Suggestion- You can do:

• Intro

• Myths

• Truths (and explain/connect how myths are based on truth)

• Conclusion

or

• Intro

• Myth/truth (size, enormous eyes,) the same

• Myth/truth(

• Conclusion

Paired Text Essay: Monsters of the Sea

Read this paired text on sea monsters.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/magazines/scope/pdfs/SCOPE-031212-PairedText.pdf

Answer the 8 multiple choice questions.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/magazines/scope/pdfs/SCOPE-REPRO-031212-8.pdf

Fill out the graphic organizer comparing and contrasting the monsters.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/magazines/scope/pdfs/SCOPE-REPRO-031212-9.pdf

Just like last week, here is the essay.


The writer J.R.R. Tolkien said, "I believe that legends and myth are largely made of truth." Write an essay explaining whether you agree or disagree with this quote. Use details from both passages to support your ideas.


Hints:
Include an intro, body paragraph(s) and a conclusion
Tell if you agree or disagree with the quote and support your ideas
Include at least 2 details from EACH passage
Check and double-check for spelling, grammar and punctuation

Two Toilets Paired Text Essay

Here is a link to the texts: http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/magazines/scope/pdfs/SCOPE-121211-ThenNow.pdf

 

Answer the 8 questions (Paired text quiz)
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/magazines/scope/pdfs/SCOPE-REPRO-121211-11.pdf

 

and fill out the chart (Two toilets)
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/magazines/scope/pdfs/SCOPE-REPRO-121211-12.pdf

 

 

You will use the chart to write your essay. (Please submit your essay on the blog. Remember to add a line space between each paragraph.)

 

 

Essay: The inventions of the flush toilet and the Peepoo are very important. Write an essay in which you compare and contrast the flush toilet with the Peepoo. Use TWO details from EACH article to support your answer.

 

In your essay, be sure to:

• compare and contrast the flush toilet and the Peepoo
• include TWO details from EACH  article to support your answer
• check your writing for correct spelling, grammar and punctuation

  

HINT: Your essay should include an intro paragraph, a paragraph about how they are similar, a paragraph on how they are different and a conclusion. This is a 4 paragraph essay. If you take information directly from the articles, be sure to put it in quotes " " and tell which article it came from.

 

Homophones

I have noticed that we have a fairly large problem with mistaken homophones in our writing! Go to this site and blog your score! Which ones did you miss?

http://www.ezschool.com/Games/Homophones.html

http://www.vocabulary.co.il/homophones/#intermediate
This is another homophone game site- it has levels that go up to high school! Have fun and play around!

Due Friday!!!

Quote Responses

What are your top three favorite quotes that your classmates posted? How do they fit your life? What do they mean to you?

• One paragraph for each quote
• Copy the quote and then explain...

Here are some more quotes...


Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.  -William Butler Yeats


Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.  -Buddha

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.  -Robert M. Hutchins

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.  -Carl Rogers


Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.  -Buddha


The only real failure in life is one not learned from.  -Anthony J. D'Angelo